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AY down the memory hole: Forest City "didn’t have to look far for a buyer" for modular factory

From Curbed, 10/25/17, Preparing for our prefab future, subtitled "A burgeoning U.S. prefab market has much to learn from Japan:":
Immediately after construction on [modular 461 Dean] was finished, Forest City Ratner sold the factory and all its associated technology.
They didn’t have to look far for a buyer. Roger Krulak was an executive at the company who led the Brooklyn project, and he thought the factory-based building approach could still work.
Well, sure. But that doesn't mean there were any other bidders, and the lack of any sale price announced suggests it could have been a fire sale. As I wrote on Twitter: "Alternatively: no one else but Krulak willing 2buy it."

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